| Topic | Details |
|---|---|
| Core Themes | Care groups, nutritional cash transfer, dietary diversity, and food security |
| Geography | Malawi (Titukulane) and Zimbabwe (Takunda) |
| Program Objectives | objective 1 objective 2 |
| Research question | During FY 24, in both the Takunda and Titukulane programs, is there a relationship between the gendered structure of the household and child feeding and nutrition practice knowledge? What factors confound that relationship? |
| Background | Food security remains one of the most pressing issues of our time. This project seeks to analyze the ways program interventions, internal behaviors, and demographics may impact measures of food security. |
| Project Status | This project was completed as a part of both the epidemiology and
the data science certificate capstone courses (EPI 598C and DATA 555
respectively). Launching of this interactive dashboard and github
repository satisfied the requirements for the completion of the Rollins
School of Public Health Data Science certificate. Updates will not continue after final submission on April 25th. |
Population includes all participants asked feeding practice knowledge questions
| TAKUNDA (N=158) |
TITUKULANE (N=227) |
Overall (N=385) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Gendered Structure of the Household | |||
| Adult Female no Adult Male (FnM) | 11 (7.0%) | 55 (24.2%) | 66 (17.1%) |
| Adult Male and Adult Female (M&F) | 147 (93.0%) | 172 (75.8%) | 319 (82.9%) |
| Age | |||
| Median [Min, Max] | 34.0 [16.0, 72.0] | 30.0 [18.0, 50.0] | 31.0 [16.0, 72.0] |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 158 (100%) | 226 (99.6%) | 384 (99.7%) |
| Male | 0 (0%) | 1 (0.4%) | 1 (0.3%) |
| Interventions Participated In | |||
| Median [Min, Max] | 2.00 [1.00, 10.0] | 14.0 [1.00, 18.0] | 9.00 [1.00, 18.0] |
| Feeding Practices Known | |||
| Median [Min, Max] | 3.00 [0, 7.00] | 0 [0, 7.00] | 0 [0, 7.00] |
| Feeding Practices Known (binary) | |||
| Zero (0) | 8 (5.1%) | 193 (85.0%) | 201 (52.2%) |
| One or more (1+) | 150 (94.9%) | 34 (15.0%) | 184 (47.8%) |
Gendered Structure of the Household (GSoH)
1=Adult Male no Adult Female (MnF)
2=Adult Female no Adult Male
(FnM)
3=Adult Male and Adult Female (M&F)
4=Female Child
no Adults (CNAF)
5=Male Child no Adults (CNAM)
* Note: 3, 4,
and 5 were removed from analyses due to small sample size
Age
Sex
Intervention participation Total number of interventions participated in by each participant
Click to explore interventions by program
Takunda
1
2
3
4
5
6
Titukulane
1
2
3
4
5
6
Feeding Practices Known Participants were asked during the PaBS survey what child feeding practices they were aware of. This question evaluated knowledge not practice.
Participants in both programs were evaluated in knowing 0 to 7 practices.
Click below to learn what practice were examined for each program
Takunda
1
2
3
4
5
6
Titukulane
1
2
3
4
5
6
Feeding Practices Known (binary)
Given that the programs did not evaluation identical practices, practices known was transformed into a binary variable. Participants were identified as knowing either zero practices or one or more practices.
Key Takeaways:
This graph provides a view of the distribution of feeding practices known, separated by gendered household type. When viewing this widget (with zero’s INCLUDED), we see that across both household types, participants are significantly more likely to know zero (0) feeding practices than one or more. Overall, both household types have similar distributions of feeding practices known, and the coloring of the dots shows that program may be a stronger driver of knowledge than gendered household type. It does lead to the belief that those in the Titukulane program on average know fewer feeding practices, while those in Takunda know significantly more.
Key Takeaways:
This barchart shows feeding practices known as a binary variable with participants either knowing 0 practices or 1 or more practices. Without the noise of gendered household type, this graph clearly shows that Takunda participants are more likely to know 1 or more feeding practices.
Key Takeaways:
This graph shows that interventions participated in has a slightly positive relationship with feeding practices known. Titukulane participants have a wider range of total interventions participated in (1 to 18), while Takunda participants participated in 1 to 10 interventions.